[finnman69]

Name me as the theocratic dictator of an oil-rich middle eastern country, and I'd be happy to oblige.

Nope, you dont get off so easy. Where are all the American terminal operators?

Guess what, the major American operators (Seal-Land, CSX) made their buisness decisions to sell off their terminal operations. The biggest remaining American terminal operator, SSA Marine, is in a joint ventuer with a state owned Chinese shipping company to run a Long Beach terminal.

Why is it the buisness owners understand the rationale for globalization but the Buchanan brigade isolationists do not?

[BubbaTheRocketScientist]

Guess what, the major American operators (Seal-Land, CSX) made their buisness decisions to sell off their terminal operations.

You can't make a solid business case for operating a domestic shipping company when the Arabs are willing to use their oil wealth to subsidize their own state-run operations.

Why is it the buisness owners understand the rationale for globalization but the Buchanan brigade isolationists do not?

I'm the former, don't mistake me for the latter. But I'm also not so naive to accept a foreign government on the same terms as a foreign private company, especially in the context of the expanding presence of Islamic Law.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Why is it the buisness owners understand the rationale for globalization but the Buchanan brigade isolationists do not?

Not that I have a particular dog in this fight, but perhaps because one worships the almighty dollar while the other doesn't? All being a good capitalist means is that you'd sell out your own mother if it made economic sense to do so. Ensuring the nation's security is not the sort of thing a public or private company does in order to make a profit.